Air Pollution Trends and Impacts: Assessing Transportation ...
Air Pollution Trends and Impacts: Assessing Transportation in Context of ...
03/29/2011 4:00 PM Noelle Eckley Selin, Assistant Professor; Engineering Systems Division; Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary SciencesDescription: It is a complicated matter mapping the movement of pollution in the atmosphere, but Noelle Eckley Selin ...
Beyond the Tailpipe: Particulate Matter Pollution from ...
Beyond the Tailpipe: Particulate Matter Pollution from Vehicular Emissions
04/26/2011 4:00 PM Jesse Kroll, Assistant Professor, MIT Civil and Environmental Engineering, Chemical Engineering; Description: It turns out that the exhaust exiting a car's tailpipe is just the first part of a complex journey of pollutants that scientists like Jesse ...
BLOSSOMS: How Biotechnology Helps Clean Up the Environment?
BLOSSOMS: How Biotechnology Helps Clean Up the Environment? (Arabic with ...
The objective of this lesson is to introduce students to one of the most important issues affecting human life and health in the 21st century, the application of modern biotechnology to the problems of environmental pollution.
DNA Mutation, Repair and the Environment
DNA Mutation, Repair and the Environment
06/07/2006 10:00 AM 46-3002Leona Samson, Director, Center for Environmental Health Sciences and Professor of Toxicology, and; Biological Engineering;; Ellison American Cancer Society Professor; Description: Forget cigarette smoking (well, not completely). The really bad news, says Leona ...
Dr. Steve Yim - Laboratory for Aviation and the Environment
Dr. Steve Yim - Laboratory for Aviation and the Environment
Dr. Steve Yim speaks about his work as a Research Scientist in the Laboratory for Aviation and the Environment in MIT's Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics.Read more: http://lae.mit.edu/?page_id=601
Economics: Regulation and Deregulation of Energy Sectors
Economics: Regulation and Deregulation of Energy Sectors
06/15/2006 11:45 AM Paul L. Joskow, Elizabeth and James Killian Professor of Economics and Management; Director of the MIT Center for Energy and Environmental Policy ResearchDescription: After viewing Paul Joskow's meaty history of the nation's energy industries, the ...
Emerald Cities: How Are Cities Advancing the Shift to a ...
Emerald Cities: How Are Cities Advancing the Shift to a Green Economy?
This talk was given on December 1, 2009 as part of the MITEI Seminar Series. - Abstract - How can cities best position themselves in the green economy? What is the role of manufacturing in urban areas? How can a city best choose an economic development strategy given ...
Engineering and Earth Systems: Can We Educate a New Breed ...
Engineering and Earth Systems: Can We Educate a New Breed of Engineers?
06/10/2006 10:00 AM KresgePhilip M. Gschwend, Associate Dept Head & Director of R M Parsons Lab; Department of Civil and Environmental EngineeringDescription: Asbestos and chlorofluorocarbons earned their initial reputations as highly effective solutions to common, ...
Engineering Enzyme Pathways for Biofuel Development
Engineering Enzyme Pathways for Biofuel Development
Jingnan Lu's research focuses on converting carbon dioxide, an environmental pollutant, into biofuel. Here she explains how she engineers a carbon-storing microorganism into a biofuel production pathway.
Environmental Impacts of Aviation
Environmental Impacts of Aviation
04/13/2010 4:00 PM 3"270Dr. Ian A. Waitz, Jerome C. Hunsaker Professor and Department Head, Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, MIT Description: Knowing more about the environmental impacts of aviation is increasingly essential, but according to Ian Waitz, it is also an area where ...
Global and Regional Climate Change: Underlying Science and ...
Global and Regional Climate Change: Underlying Science and Emerging Riddles
05/02/2008 4:00 PM 32"123Veerabhadran Ramanathan, Distinguished Professor of Climate and Atmospheric Sciences, University of California, San DiegoDescription: Veerabhadran Ramanathan recaps 35 years of key findings, and brings his audience up to date on the latest ...
Harlan County, Kentucky: McKinley Sumner's Disappearing ...
Harlan County, Kentucky: McKinley Sumner's Disappearing Backyard
McKinley Sumner heard a sound his backyard one day, and realized something wasn't right. When he walked to the edge of his property line, he found tractors from the abutting coal mine digging into his land. Soon he saw his local creek, once clean and healthy, turn ...
Harlan County, Kentucky: What Happened to Elmer's Fishpond?
Harlan County, Kentucky: What Happened to Elmer's Fishpond?
Elmer Lloyd, a proud former coal miner, struggles to come to terms with his prize fishpond becoming a polluted acid pond at the hands of a coal company.
Planning the Response: Establishing the Impacts and ...
Planning the Response: Establishing the Impacts and Identifying the ...
09/28/2010 3:00 PM E14"674Amy Glasmeier, Department Head, Professor of Geography and Regional Planning, DUSP; Wyman Briggs, Preparedness Specialist, US Coast Guard; Earthea Nance, Assistant Professor, Department of Urban Studies, University of New Orleans) ; James Thu ...
Probing the Plume
Probing the Plume
11/17/2010 MuseumRich Camilli, Associate Scientist; Applied Ocean Physics & Engineering, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute; Description: It's a good thing for oil spill science that Richard Camilli was not yet on a flight to Australia when the Coast Guard called last May. An hour later and ...
Re-Engineering Buildings: Innovations in Building Technology
Re-Engineering Buildings: Innovations in Building Technology
10/01/2010 11:00 AM e14"633Tony Ciochetti, Chairman, MIT Center for Real Estate; John Ochsendorf, Associate Professor, Department of Architecture; Alex (Sandy) Pentland, PhD '82, Toshiba Professor of Media Arts and Sciences, and Director of Human Dynamics Research, ...
Rural Life in the Himalayas - Excerpts from a trip through ...
Rural Life in the Himalayas - Excerpts from a trip through Ladakh, India ...
Video taken during a summer 2008 trip by Catlin Powers and Scot Frank to Ladakh, India and Yunnan, China. Detailed within are some aspects of rural life, the terain, modes of transportation, people, and culture. This trip was related to field research into suitable ...
Sustainability is Only Half the Solution, Regeneration is ...
Sustainability is Only Half the Solution, Regeneration is the Other Half
11/08/2006 5:00 PM Carol Sanford, CEO, InterOctave, Inc.Description: It's a hell of a way to run a business -- consuming more resources than you bring in, selling off your assets, and cooking the books to make things look good. Yet, says Carol Sanford, that is ...
Tammy Thompson on "Evaluating Energy Policy: Quantifying ...
Tammy Thompson on "Evaluating Energy Policy: Quantifying Air Pollution and ...
Researcher Tammy Thompson attended the American Geophysical Union's Science Policy Conference this month. In this video, Thompson explains the research she did that the conference highlighted. To view Thompson's poster from the conference, click here. In her research, ...